Does this sound right?

[jnojr]

My system:

Gigabyte P35-DS3L
E2180 currently OCed to 250 X 10
Zalman CNPS9700 LED
Crucial Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA804
Antec Earthwatts 500W PSU
eVGA 7600GT 256-P2-N615-TX


3DMark06 (1.1.0 Basic) gives me a 3387.

I do have RivaTuner but haven't forayed into mucking with the card yet... at least when I push the mobo BIOS too far, I know I can reset it to a working config

 

[nightscope]

Yeah looks about right. Your 7600 GT is holding you back.

BTW, E2180 has a x9 multiplier.

 

[jnojr]

Yeah looks about right. Your 7600 GT is holding you back.

Yeah, I know... I plan on stepping up to an 8800GT in January or so. If the $179 256MB cards come out, I'll be all over that.

BTW, E2180 has a x9 multiplier.

What does that mean? Am I better off running it at X9 instead of X10?

I'm wondering how high I can run the FSB... I tried 300X10 but that got me a bunch of beeps at boot time

 

[nightscope]

No no no, the max multiplier on the e2180 is x9, not 10x. e2200 is the one with the x10 multiplier.

 

[cnumartyr]

E2180

800 MHz QDR FSB = 200 System.
2.0 GHz = 200x10.

 

[Silverion77]

Yeah......Nightscope it is a 10x multiplier (dont you have one)

the E2200 has 11x

 

[nightscope]

Oh wow...I quit....I quit...

Sorry about that.

Why don't you take that processor higher than 2.5 Ghz? With a stock cooler you can safely reach 3 Ghz, I'm pretty sure your Zalman can handle that quite easily.

 

[jnojr]

Why don't you take that processor higher than 2.5 Ghz? With a stock cooler you can safely reach 3 Ghz, I'm pretty sure your Zalman can handle that quite easily.

I'm working on it. Right now, I'm at 266X10 I'll try 285X10 in a bit.

 

[Evilonigiri]

You might want to get a better heatsink, that way you can hit 3.2ghz with no worries on temps.

 

[jnojr]

I just can't make it do 3.2 GHz. Even playing with the voltages. Unless I'm just not adding enough? I bumped VCORE up one notch, and made the rsst like +0.1V The system just restarts with the manual control disabled so I'm back at 2.0 GHz.

 

[cnumartyr]

I just can't make it do 3.2 GHz. Even playing with the voltages. Unless I'm just not adding enough? I bumped VCORE up one notch, and made the rsst like +0.1V The system just restarts with the manual control disabled so I'm back at 2.0 GHz.

Give it more vCore!!!

 

[jnojr]

How much VCORE? I just tried several times, bumping it to 1.4something, at which point the system would no longer boot.